20260301 Sunday, March 1, 2026: Twin Harbors State Park Clamming Day 4

20260301 Sunday, March 1, 2026: Twin Harbors State Park Clamming Day 4

The weather has been surprisingly nice this weekend, with frequent sun breaks and little rain since Wednesday and early Thursday.  Today, the sun was out for much of the day with broken cloud cover, and a mild breeze.  Our batteries were just a little below 40% in the morning as the solar panels began to register energy.  We ran the generator to make coffee and tea, and allow the batteries to charge up at 9:45am, as most other campers were out and about.  We had a group camping in an adjacent site with a strange plastic bubble enclosure around their picnic table and a small pup tent on the ground.  They had the unfortunate habit of cutting through our campsite, walking right behind our RV, to get to the bathroom and shower building, rather than walk on the driveway.  FYI, it’s poor campground etiquette to cut through anyone’s camp site.  

We went for another walk on the beach.  It was near high tide.  There were a couple of tire tracks heading north of the park high on the beach with two spots that looked like someone had tried to park, but got a bit bogged down in the softer sand.  But they had managed to successfully get turned around and out of there.  Janet collected a few more sand dollars for her collection.  There are some impressive waves with breakers up and down the coast as the ocean swell meets the shallowing beach.  

The campground seemed to largely empty out as most of the tent campers and pop-up campers packed up and left, presumably to go home in time to return to their Monday to Friday work lives.  Ben got in a shower since there was nobody around using it.  

Lunch was simple cup of soup, Cheeze-Its and rotisserie chicken.  We headed out to the beach at 3pm, even though the low tide was at 5:26pm.  The tide was at 2’ and dropping, and we did find clam shows developing a hundred feet above the splash line.  We were able to be a little pickier about looking for larger shows and did end up with our limits of 15 each by 4pm.   

We got back to the camp and Janet got in her shower while Ben started cleaning up the clamming gear and preparing it for stowage, since this was our last day of clamming for this trip.  

There was just enough time to get things put away and back into the Bronco to drive to the Westport Library to use their Wifi to Zoom the family in our Sunday ritual.  The library’s Wifi was not connected to the internet again, but there was ample cellular signal to use our cell phone hot spots to do the Zoom meeting using an iPad on the dashboard of the Bronco.  

When we got back to camp, we had a quick dinner with Ben eating another baked cod, rice pilaf and carrots dinner and Janet having a bowl of Ramen.  Then we processed today’s clams.  

Tomorrow, we’ll head home.  We’ll need to hit the rest stop in Montesano to use the dump station.  On this trip, since the campground bathroom is so close by, we only use the RV’s toilet for number 1, and treat toilet paper like in Mexico- into the trash, and not into the holding tank.  This makes dumping the black tank pretty quick and painless.  We also try to dump clam processing water down the campground drain, so our holding tanks last longer.